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We told you not to be surprised! We told you that game designer Hideo Kojima was making MGSV character Quiet all sexy because, um, it's good for cosplay, or selling figures, or something.
According to Kojima's Twitter, this is the "Play Arts Kai" version of Quiet. The figure is still a work-in-progress.
This doesn't exactly seem like sensible gear for the battlefield.
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Meringue Kiss Cookies
I remember my very first Meringue like it was yesterday. I was 15 and was in the car with this guy that I was head over heels in love with (turns out he was gay, but that's another story for another day). And he handed me a beautiful Meringue cookie. It was dark purple with streaks of white. He told me that he and his Mom had made them the night before (I know, how did I not know he was gay!?). So I saw him shoving the whole cookie in his mouth at once and I remember thinking, wow how klassy. So of course to be lady like, I bite through it with my front teeth. Fast forward to 2nd period when my girlfriend pulls me into the bathroom and shows me that my front teeth are completely purple. It looked like I was missing my two front teeth. Needless to say I have not had a Meringue cookie again…till today.
Today I tried a Meringue again for the second time. Mainly because they look so damned cute…but also because I hadn't actually realized that Meringues were the cookies from that day. I hadn't remembered the name and I had also partly blocked out that memory. But once I took a bite out of one of these, the memory came rushing back. And boy am I glad I only made them in pink, white, and yellow! 🙂 This Meringue recipe was easy, but piping them all can be a pain. Just keep your hand/arm steady and you should be able to get those perfect little peaks!
Meringue Kiss Cookies
- 4 eggs whites
- 1 cup sugar
- Pinch of tartar
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- Food coloring/dye of your choice
Line to bake sheets with parchment and heat oven to 175 degrees F
Place sugar, egg whites and tartar in a bowl over (not on) simmering water. Constantly whisk the egg whites until the sugar has dissolved.
Pour the egg mixture into a clean bowl. Using a whisk attachment on a stand mixer or a hand held mixture, slowly beat egg mixture. Add in vanilla extract and any food coloring if you are using it. Gradually increase speed and continue to beat mixture until stiff peaks have almost formed. Mixture is ready when whisk attachment dipped into mixture leaves a curled but stiff peak when removed.
Transfer mixture to a pastry bag fitted with a close or open star tip and pipe ½ inch to ¾ inch wide cookies, making sure to set them one inch apart from one another. Bake at 175 degrees F for 1 ½ hours, then turn off oven and leave the door slightly ajar for meringues to cool down with the oven. Store meringue cookies in an airtight container away from any heat or moisture. Alternatively, store them in the freezer where they can be enjoyed straight from the freezer without any defrosting.
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Gracias for the link. I have been using AT 7000 with drivers (old) that came on disk. The 10GB HD drive gave up the ghost on the weekend in the middle of Pool of Radiance. I had an extra 10GB drive and ran it With Windows XP and did all directx tests. The Win XP runs slower than Win98 SE, so I may wipe out XP and put 98 back on it to use as my (intended Y2k game machine). It is not connected to internet (standalone), so I am not worried about old OS. So far, it has been rockin real good. I will put in the Nvidia 6200s in another old machine once I get a case and pwoer supply. Unfortunately, that other machine is not an AMD powered box, just a lowly 1.3Ghz Celeron full size ATX mobo. Thanks for keeping the thread alive. I hope to see more people revive old machines.
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I took the Hampton Jitney in to New York City on Wednesday afternoon to see the new Willem de Kooning Exhibit appearing at the Museum of Modern Art. For the last 35 years of his life, de Kooning, one of the greatest painters who ever lived, worked in a studio behind a modest house he and his wife Elaine owned on Woodbine Drive in Springs, not far from my home. The exhibit is extensive and arranged chronologically. The first painting is one he did in his native Holland when he was 12 years old. One can follow the exhibit through six gallery rooms and see how his work transformed over time. He died in 1997.
The plan was that my wife and I would meet up at our apartment at 6 p.m. and then tour the exhibit and afterwards go out for dinner.
I wrote a story for the newspaper about the recent local elections here in the Hamptons on my laptop on the Jitney on the way in and just finished up as we arrived up at 86th Street on Third Avenue at 5 p.m. I disembarked into a light rain, and began, without an umbrella, to walk toward our apartment nearby. At Lexington Avenue, I called my wife on her cellphone to let her know I'd arrived.
"I'm not at the apartment yet," she said. "I won't be there until a little after 6 p.m. And also, you should know that 85th Street is completely blocked off, even to pedestrian traffic. Obama is at a fundraiser there. So come across 84th Street." [expand]
I could see the flashing lights of the many police cars up ahead. I also thought—I need to edit what I wrote. There was a Starbucks on the corner of Lex and 85th. I'd go there, I thought, and still get home by 6 p.m. I also noticed that across from the Starbucks was Little Brown Coffee, another choice. But I decided to stick with Starbucks.
There was a long line at the counter at Starbucks, and I saw that all of the little round tables and chairs were taken, except for one chair at one table, opposite of which sat a woman in a pale blue raincoat and white headscarf. I thought—I ought to grab that, and then get a drink when things clear up.
I walked over and asked if I could sit and she said okay. I noticed a metal cane, watery blue eyes. She was quite elderly, perhaps 90. I took my laptop out of its bag.
"Everyone's got an Apple," she said, motioning to a row of tables. I looked. Indeed, all the way down everybody was working on an Apple. "I have one at home too. But I left mine home." There was a twinkle in her eye. "I'm headed out."
"Where you going?" I asked.
"The de Kooning Exhibit," she said. And thus we launched into conversation, which, after a brief time, I cut short, apologizing and motioning to the work I had to do.
I had been working for about 10 minutes when out of the corner of my eye, I saw her get up, give me a little wave and leave. I also thought, seeing there was still a line at the barista counter, to pass on the coffee for awhile. I'd just sit and do my editing.
Two minutes later, someone else sat in the seat opposite me, a slender, middle-aged man in a black suit, cufflinks, tie and a metal lapel pin that had two crossed flags on it. He also had black, newly shined shoes and matching black socks. He was impeccably dressed.
I, on the other hand, was wearing an old, beat-up bomber jacket and a red and blue scarf. I also wore a straw hat. And I was struck by how different we looked and how different we'd look next to the old lady.
The thing is, and I never noticed this before, if you sit down at a computer at a table you usually eat or drink at and there is someone across from you, you have an expectation that whoever is there across from you will remain that person across from you unless there is a polite exchange about it, which in this case there was not. So seeing this fellow, sitting without asking, gave me a start.
I looked for an earpiece. Didn't see one.
"You with Obama?" I asked.
"Nope," he said. "Insurance."
And that was our entire conversation for the next five minutes. After that, he got up and I once again went back to my computer—only to be startled by still another person sitting down.
This was a slender black man, late twenties, wearing a plastic New York Yankees Cap with a big brim facing forward, a black jacket with silver stars on it and on his feet big oversized sneakers. He also carried a small black men's zippered bag, which he set on the table. Out from this, he soon took a cellphone and began texting.
It now occurred to me that neither the old woman, the insurance man, or this guy had bought anything at Starbucks. Counting me, that made four. How does this place make any money? It also occurred to me we were all four completely different characters—we could hardly be more different one from another—and I started laughing.
He looked at me quizzically, and so I told him what was so funny. I mentioned writer, old lady, insurance salesman and now you.
"So who are you?" I asked.
"I manage the Little Brown Coffee shop across the street," he said. "Just getting away for a little break. I come here all the time."
"They let you do that?"
"I used to work here. I was trained here."
He then told me he was a professional barista.
"It's my life's work. I enter cappuccino making contests," he said. "Look." He held out his cellphone to me, pressed a few keys and then I saw on the screen a cup of cappuccino with a cinnamon swirl on the top in a magnificent artful design.
"Wow," I said.
"Could you plug this in for me? It's on your side." He was holding out the charger plug for his cellphone. I looked down to the baseboard. I plugged him in. I offered up my name. His was Marcus.
I then told him I was an amateur barista. I loved making cappuccinos, but the old fashioned way. I had two old machines, one in East Hampton and the other in Manhattan, both of which sputtered and hissed when you made the drink.
"Not like the new machines," I said, "where you put in a measured pod of coffee. I can do the whole ritual in exactly eight minutes."
"I love what I do," he said. "Let me show you something else." He unzipped his bag and out from it took a small stainless steel milk frothing pitcher. "I never go anywhere without this," he said.
I was amazed.
"You ought to come by Little Brown's and I'll give you a lesson in cappuccino making so you can do these cinnamon designs," he said.
"When are you there?"
"I'm there tomorrow beginning at two."
So tomorrow I have a date with Marcus at Little Brown to learn a craft. He had also asked if I was married and said I should bring my wife too.
One last thing. As he got up to leave, his cellphone flew out of his hand and crashed to the floor. He had forgotten he was still plugged in. He grabbed and checked if it was okay. It was.
"You're very cool," I laughed.
At the M.O.M.A., we enjoyed the de Kooning show. I never did see the old lady though. But it's a big exhibit, on view until January 9, 2012.
As we were leaving about 7:30 p.m., the whole damn Obama motorcade came rumbling down East 53rd Street – flashing lights, officers on motorcycles, limousines.
"He's going to the Sheraton," the doorman said as he motioned us to the revolving door. "Another fundraiser."


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PMA 2010: Samsung gets serious
Samsung's announcement of the TL500 and TL350 brings their Point and Shoot line to a new, enthusiast-focused market. Their DualView cameras were a hit with consumers, and Samsung has had some success supplying big-box retailers with compact point and shoots. We took a first look at the two new advanced TL models at the Samsung booth – and caught a working NX K mount adapter in action.
Samsung NX10 K mount Adapter
The K-mount adapter that was promised with the release of the NX10 is evidently a reality. We spotted the Samsung 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5 ED fish eye lens coupled to the NX10 by means of the new K mount adapter. The fish eye lens is relatively compact, offering a nice balance with the NX10 camera body. Samsung also announced five new NX lenses prior to PMA, solidifying their committment to the NX brand.
Samsung TL500
Samsung launched the TL500 just prior to PMA. Their launch of the NX10 interchangeable lens system along with the announcement of the TL500 marks their commitment to moving into the advanced amateur market. The specifications were enough to entice plenty of PMA attendees to check out the new camera.
A 10 megapixel sensor coupled with a bright f/1.8 lens would seem to lend it to low-light shooting. Manual exposure controls make it appealing to the enthusiast. The camera body is solid enough to appeal to a more experienced shooter looking for a reasonably durable, somewhat pocketable compact camera. In our brief hands-on session, the controls seemed to be laid out intuitively. The front control wheel changes shutter speed, and the ring around the compass dial on the back adjusts aperture. The handgrip is rubberized for a steady feel in the hand.
What appears to be a control ring around the perimeter of the lens can actually be removed to make way for a wide angle lens attachment. The heavy accessory extends the already wide 24mm angle of the camera's fixed lens.
The TL500 and the TL350 also introduce a new graphical interface to Samsung's camera lineup. The main menus have been given a slick blue and black treatment for a more sophisticated look.
Looking only at the build and physical specs, the TL500 seems to be a nice addition to the set of advanced compact cameras currently floating around on the market. It was announced with an MSRP of $449.
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When it was announced alongside the TL500, the TL350 became Samsung's first high speed camera. It offers full-res burst shooting at up 10 fps and slow-mo 1,000 fps at a reduced resolution.
It's much tighter than the TL500, built to suit a slightly different audience. It's very slim and very compact overall. The AMOLED monitor on back seems bright and clear. The icons on the screen in the image below demonstrate the look of the interface when the camera is set to manual exposure.
Up on top, Samsung brings back the memory and battery gauges, a little style flourish that shoppers will either find attractive or baffling. Either way, the top deck of the camera is sleek and slim with a blue back-lit power button.
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With Jon Stewart being an outspoken promoter of sanity, it would, of course, be insane for him to turn down a chance to interview a sitting president on "The Daily Show," especially with his big rally coming up this weekend.
For President Obama, whose approval ratings are sagging with the crucial mid-term elections days away, appearing on a show that attracts the demographic that helped get him elected would seem a rational move.
But both men, whose chat is slated to air Wednesday, are at different crossroads where sanity – or competing perceptions of it – might not have much to do with where each is headed.
Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity," along with his Comedy Central pal Stephen Colbert's "March to Keep Fear Alive," is expected to bring a large crowd to the National Mall Saturday. Satellite gatherings reportedly are planned around the world.
There will be, little doubt, debate for days after about whether Stewart and Colbert drew more folks than Glenn Beck's August "Restoring Honor Rally," the event the duo is ostensibly parodying.
But the more important question, though, is whether the Stewart/Colbert affair will cross the line from comedy fest to political spectacular.
The biggest joke about Beck's rally was that he kept insisting it wasn't a political event, even as Tea Party-friendly potential GOP presidential candidate Sarah Palin joined the Fox News talk show host in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Stewart, who mocks the left and right on his show, has portrayed his rally as a call for badly needed rational discourse on all both of the political aisle. But he – and Colbert to an extent – risk losing their comic credibility if the much-hyped gathering comes off as an exercise in bashing the right.
Perceptions count, even before the fact. The Washington Post ran columns on consecutive days headlined, "The Case Against Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity, by a 'Daily Show' Fan" and "Just Who Does Jon Stewart Think He is?" The latter piece made the front page of the Style section, complete with a drawing of a Mt. Rushmore re-imagined as a quadruple tribute to the many faces of Stewart.
On the far sillier side, NMA, the Taiwanese animated news parody outfit best known for adding to Tiger Woods' humiliation, weighed in on the Stewart rally. The Internet video (check it out here, via Mediaite) shows Obama and Stewart scratching one another's backs in the Oval Office, and portrays the comic as a being part of a liberal cabal that includes Oprah Winfrey.
Winfrey, of course, has lent her support to the rally – providing trips to Washington for Stewart's audience – and was an early prominent Obama backer.
Obama returned the favor by granting her a TV interview. He's done quite a few entertainment TV appearances as president, exposing himself to criticism of frivolous overexposure at a time when the country is mired in all kind of difficulties. He's visited Jay Leno, David Letterman, "The View," among other shows, and is set for a guest shot on "Mythbusters."
By going on "The Daily Show," Obama risks feeding into the right's portrayal of him as a friend of the Hollywood elite – and of Stewart as a liberal court jester.
Obama's planned appearance can be seen as at the very least a tacit endorsement of Stewart's rally, which the President mentioned in comments last month while bemoaning cable news talk show nastiness, blaming both the left and right for being "purposely provocative."
"They get rewarded in the way our media is set up right now," Obama said.
That he has a point isn't the point.
Some of his recent rhetoric (particularly his comments to Rolling Stone scolding some disappointed Democratic faithful for wanting to "take their ball and go home") echoes Jimmy Carter's infamous "Malaise" speech. And his complaints about cable news shows are reminiscent of Spiro Agnew's (via the pen of William Safire) "nattering nabobs of negativism" knock on the press.
Words – and talk show appearances – don't mean all that much when many folks are looking for change, especially with unemployment nearing 10 percent.
The last time Obama appeared on "The Daily Show," was on Oct. 29, 2008, just days before he was elected, when the hopes of many were high. Stewart, at the time, was facing a potential comic drought with the end of the Bush years. Over the last two years, he's been the beneficiary, at least in terms of material, of the partisan split that's hurting the country.
Give Stewart credit for delivering biting satire night after night and for boldness in taking his show on the road, even if his trip to Washington might push him into dubious territory.
But it's going to take a lot more than interviewing the President on a comedy show or holding a rally to find whether there's any sanity left.
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"Each and every inductee has had profound impact in hockey"
ZURICH – Brilliant performance under historic pressure as well as long-lasting excellence is recognized as the IIHF Hall of Fame inducts players Peter Forsberg, Danielle Goyette, Paul Henderson, Teppo Numminen, Mats Sundin and builder Jan-Åke Edvinsson.Broadcaster Gord Miller is awarded the Paul Loicq Award while the Soviet national team of 1954 won the Milestone Trophy.The IIHF Historical Committee and its chairman, IIHF President René Fasel, have announced the 17th class of the IIHF Hall of Fame to be ceremonially inducted on May 19, 2013 on the Gold Medal Day of the 77th IIHF World Championship in Stockholm.Click here for a complete list of all honoured members since the IIHF Hall of Fame was introduced in 1997. It now boasts 189 greats from 22 countries.
Peter Forsberg (SWE)Born: Örnskoldsvik, Sweden, July 20, 1973Peter Forsberg had the vision of a world-class passer, the hands of a top scorer, and the competitive fire of a winner who could perform under the greatest pressure. It is no wonder that he was not only the youngest member of the Triple Gold Club; he reached the three milestones faster than any player, winning World Championship gold and Olympic gold in his first try, in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and holding the Stanley Cup in 1996 in only his second NHL season. Before the end of his career, he had repeated these TGC feats, becoming the only player to achieve "double TGC" credentials in this way.Forsberg was on the 2006 Tre Kronor team that won Olympic gold in Turin, giving him his second complete set of Triple Gold Club honours. He assisted on Nicklas Lidström's gold-medal winning goal early in the third period against Finland.In all, Forsberg played for Sweden at four Olympics, five World Championships, two World Cup of Hockey tournaments, and two U20 events. In 63 top-level games, he recorded 57 points, and he was named Best Forward by the IIHF Directorate at the 1998 Worlds. At the 1993 U20 he set a record that will surely never be beat, recording 24 assists and 31 points.Forsberg's first important career moment came in 1992. He was part of the team that defeated all comers to win gold at the IIHF World Championship in Prague even before he played in the NHL.Forsberg played with MODO Örnsköldsvik in the Swedish Elite League for three years before beginning a pro career in North America. The final European season for "Foppa" culminated with the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer where he scored one of the most famous – and bravest – goals in Olympic and shootout history. He one-handed the puck to the far side past a sliding Corey Hirsch of Canada to score the winning goal in the gold medal game.In his first NHL season, with Quebec in 1994-95, Forsberg won the Calder Trophy as the league's best rookie, and the next year, the team now in Denver, he helped the Colorado Avalanche win the Stanley Cup. Forsberg was just 22 years old and had already completed his Triple Gold Club honours. Two years later, he began his quest for a second TGC run by leading Sweden to a gold medal at the 1998 World Championship in Switzerland.Forsberg's style of play was unique. By no means tall, he had a low centre of gravity and powerful legs, able to fend off checkers while maintaining puck possession. He was a master weaver and dodger, feigning and turning quickly to avoid contact, all the while looking for an open man or an opportunity to shoot. He was a threat to create a scoring chance every time he had control of the puck inside the enemy blue line.Forsberg was a dominating presence with the Avs for many years, helping the team to a second Stanley Cup in 2001. In 2002-03, he won both the Art Ross and Hart Trophies as scoring champion and league MVP after a sensational season, but injuries were taking a toll on his body. He had missed the entire regular season of 2001-02, and in later years his feet were the cause of enormous pain and problems.He retired in 2011 after playing two games with Colorado in 2010-11, trying to come back from foot injuries he just couldn't skate around, but by that time his legend in both Sweden and the NHL had long been established.
Danielle Goyette (CAN)Born: St-Nazaire, Quebec, Canada, January 30, 1966In many respects Danielle Goyette was the Gordie Howe of women's hockey. A superstar talent on offence, she was a gifted scorer who continued to produce with Howe's consistency. Indeed, she had more points in her final Women's World Championship in 2007 at age 41 (11) than she did in her first some 15 years earlier as a 26-year-old (10).And, like Howe, it all began far from the bright lights of a big city and great crowds. St-Nazaire, located a distant three-hour drive from Quebec City, was a town of only 800 when Goyette was growing up, but like any kid she started skating around age four.In all, Goyette played in three Olympics and nine IIHF Women's World Championships, winning gold every time with two exceptions, the '98 Olympics and 2005 Worlds. In 61 games at the highest level she averaged a point and a half a game and was adept as both a scorer and passer. She led all players in Nagano in 1998 with eight goals and was the scoring leader at the 1992 Women's Worlds with 10 points. She had as many points in Salt Lake in 2002 to tie for the overall lead.By the time Goyette had played her final games for Canada in 2007 at age 41, she was second all-time with 15 goals at the Olympics and fourth all-time with 68 points at the Women's Worlds and third all-time with 37 goals.One of eight children, Danielle was an excellent tennis player and fastball player, but she focused her ambitions on hockey, pretending to play for her beloved Montreal Canadiens while skating outdoors in the cold winters. Goyette spoke virtually no English when she made the national team in 1991, but within five years she had relocated to Calgary to learn the language and concentrate full-time on hockey, hoping to play for Canada at the inaugural event in Nagano in 1998.Goyette was the flag-bearer for Canada at the opening ceremonies of the 2006 Games in Turin and went on to become head coach at the University of Calgary. She recruited former teammate Hayley Wickenheiser and led the Dinos to a national championship in 2012, a first for that university.
Paul Henderson (CAN)Born: Kincardine, Ontario, Canada, January 28, 1943For 28 days in September 1972, Paul Henderson was the finest hockey player in the world, the hero of a series that changed hockey forever. He scored three game-winning goals at the end of the Canada-Soviet Union Summit Series, the last two the greatest goals in the history of the game. Henderson embodied a bit of both nations' remarkably different styles of play. He was a combination of tough Canadian with unlimited heart and a Soviet skater with puck-handling skills. In 1972, he used this combination to produce a performance the hockey world has never seen before or since.His series-clinching goal with 34 seconds remaining of game eight remains the most celebrated moment in Canada's sports history, a defining and unifying moment in Canadian culture. No other player's achievements in international hockey history have had such an impact on one nation as Henderson's.As well, he was one of only three '72 Summit players to appear in the 1974 Summit Series featuring WHA players, and in a 19-year pro career in the NHL and WHA he played almost 1,100 games, going to the Stanley Cup finals with Detroit in 1964 and 1966. In junior, Henderson won the Memorial Cup in 1962 and led all scorers in the OHA the next season.In a Summit Series that got tougher and more important with each passing day, Henderson proved resilient and determined in a way even he might never have expected of himself before the Summit Series began. His courage in coming back from a concussion in game five to become the hero in the final three games cannot be over-stated, and each winning goal came using a different skill – big slap shot, incredible stick-handling, timely positioning (and even a little divine inspiration thrown in for good measure).The Summit Series was supposed to be a cakewalk for Canada, but a crushing 7-3 loss to the Soviet Union in game one resulted in turmoil across the nation. By the time the series shifted to Moscow, Canada was in a fight for its life. After a loss in game five, Canada trailed the eight-game Series 1-1-3. In that game Henderson crashed heavily into the end boards, lost consciousness, and suffered a concussion. Luckily, he was wearing a helmet, and both he and team doctors acknowledged the injury might have been fatal without the headgear.Henderson returned to action and he scored Canada's third goal midway through the second period of a narrow 3-2 result. Game seven was a fight to the end. With time winding down and the score tied 3-3, it looked like the Soviets would hang on and claim the series. But with two minutes remaining, Henderson got the puck at centre ice. Alone, with two Soviets behind him and two in front, no one could have seen what was to come.Henderson accelerated, chipped the puck through the two defencemen, skated around the outside in a blaze of speed. As he got to the puck, falling, he chipped it over a stunned Vladislav Tretiak, giving Canada a 4-3 win. A more spectacular goal in hockey you will never see.In game eight, a similar script played out. This time the score was 5-5, and the game was in the final minute. Again the Soviet team was mere moments from winning the Summit Series. But Henderson screamed for Peter Mahovlich to get off the ice – something a hockey player never does. Mahovlich complied, though, and Henderson tore to Tretiak's goal while Phil Esposito stole the puck and swatted it in front. One shot, save. Second shot – goal! "Henderson has scored for Canada!" shouted play-by-play legend Foster Hewitt. Canada had produced a heroic comeback – and Henderson has been a hero in Canada from that day to this – and forevermore.
Teppo Numminen (FIN)Born: Tampere, Finland, July 3, 1968A member of the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame, few players have had the dual careers enjoyed by Teppo Numminen both in the NHL and for his country internationally.He played in four Olympics (winning three medals), four IIHF World Championships, and another four Canada Cup/World Cup events. Indeed, if it was a top-level international event for Suomi during his two decades of play, Numminen was there. As well, his career included some 20 seasons in North America, and by the time he retired, in 2009, he had played 1,372 regular-season games in the NHL, more than any other European player. With the previous induction of his father, Kalevi, as a Builder in 2011, the Numminens become the first father-son pair of inductees in IIHF Hall of Fame history.Numminen was drafted 29th overall by the Winnipeg Jets in 1986, but he continued to play in Finland for two more years. He was part of the U20 team in '88 that won a bronze for Finland. He was named the tournament's Best Defenceman by the IIHF Directorate, and just a few weeks later he played for Finland at the Olympics in Calgary.That team won an historic silver medal, the first time the nation had reached the podium in Olympic ice hockey. Teammates included a virtual who's who of the greatest Finnish players of the era – Raimo Helminen, Reijo Ruotsalainen, Kari Eloranta, and Jarmo Myllys to name but a few.Numminen moved to Winnipeg to begin his professional career in North America at the start of the following season, 1988-89. Tall and strong, he used strong positional play more than brute force to play successful defence. He was reliable and consistent, rarely missed games due to injury, and was a pillar on the blue line for the next 15 seasons, first with the Jets and then the Phoenix Coyotes when the team moved to Arizona.Meanwhile, Numminen was equally a pillar on his national team's blue line. In both 1987 and 1991 he played at the World Championships and then the Canada Cup, and in 1996 he played in the World Championship and then the inaugural World Cup of Hockey.Numminen was a lynchpin on the blue line even as he entered his thirties. He played at the first three Olympics with NHL player participation, in 1998, 2002, and 2006, winning a bronze in Nagano after Finland upset Canada in that medal game. In 2006, the 37-year-old played in the most important game of his life, the gold medal game of the Olympics against rivals Sweden. The Finns fell one goal short and settled for an impressive but heart-breaking silver.This was the second close call for Numminen. He had also played against Canada in the championship game of the 2004 World Cup of Hockey, but that turned out to be another one-goal loss. In both instances, though, the Finns had defeated all comers to get to those critical final games. Teppo Numminen is arguably one of the greatest international defencemen of the modern era.
Mats Sundin (SWE)Born: Bromma (Stockholm), Sweden, February 13, 1971There is likely no player in the modern era who could step forward and say he had a greater international hockey career than Mats Sundin. Sundin was not just a part of several great teams – he led, dominated, controlled and produced victories for those Tre Kronor teams for whom he represented on so many occasions.Apart from his four major international titles, three World Championships and one Olympic gold, he was named to five international All-Star Teams, was named MVP of the 2003 World Championship, and led three major events in scoring.Sundin was the first European to be selected first overall at the NHL Entry Draft, an honour bestowed upon him in 1989 by the Quebec Nordiques. Over the next season he played at the U20 and then senior World Championships, joining the Nordiques in the fall of 1990.Sundin didn't wait long to make an impact for his country. At the 1991 IIHF World Championship, only 20 years old, he scored arguably the most sensational goal in IIHF history, going end-to-end in the third period against the Soviet Union to score the winning goal for gold. He played at the 1991 Canada Cup and at age 21 helped Tre Kronor repeat as World Champions a year later, leading the team in scoring with eight points in as many games.Sundin had size and savvy. He had remarkable speed for a big man, and could stickhandle with intimidating effect. His backhand was second to none, and as he got older what emerged were leadership qualities to be admired by teammates and opponents alike. Sundin was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1994, the same city in which Borje Salming established his greatness, and it wasn't long before Sundin was given the "C", the first time a European had been named leader of the Leafs.By the time he retired, his 11-year tenure as captain marked the longest such service by a European in NHL history. He was also the first Swede to reach 500 goals and in November 2012 became only the second Swede after Salming to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.But while Sundin was a remarkable NHL player, he was an even greater international one. He was a force supreme at the 1996 World Cup of Hockey, where he was named to the All-Star Team, and he won a third World Championship gold in 1998. He also played in the first three Olympics featuring NHL players, in 1998, 2002, and 2006. In Salt Lake 2002, he was a dominant force in a tournament. Despite that Sundin's run was cut short by the team's stunning upset at the hands of Belarus in the quarter-finals, he was still named to the Olympic All-Star Team and led the tournament in scoring.The last of his Olympic appearances, in 2006 in Turin, cemented Sundin's place in hockey history. Captaining the team, he led Sweden to a gold medal, assisting on the winning goal from Nicklas Lidström early in the third period. He declared after the game that he had played his final game for Sweden. He was right, but his legacy has no ending. The name Mats Sundin will live forever in the highest levels of international hockey history.
Jan-Åke Edvinsson (SWE)Born: Trolle Ljungby, Sweden, September 13, 1941Edvinsson is the architect of the modern IIHF. He was the Federation's highest executive for 21 years, leading the day-to-day operations as the General Secretary between 1986 and 2006, a period longer than anyone in the organization's history.It was during these two decades that the IIHF and its championship programs developed in an unprecedented manner. Edvinsson turned a small and parochial operation into a modern international sports federation which cast an influence on the game in every corner of the globe. When he assumed the position in 1986, the IIHF had 34 member nations and oversaw a tournament program that consisted of just eight events. The annual IIHF budget was 3.5 million Swiss Francs, and the office had but two employees. Upon his retirement in 2006, the IIHF had 64 member nations spread over every continent, and the annual program of events encompassed 29 international tournaments and several club competitions. The office staff had grown to 25 while the budget in his last year was 50 million Swiss Francs.Without doubt, Edvinsson's greatest assets were his fiscal responsibility and his ability to communicate with representatives from the IIHF's members associations in a harmonious and attentive manner. When René Fasel was elected IIHF President in 1994, Edvinsson, already in his ninth year as international hockey's main executive, became a mentor to the President.Edvinsson's career in hockey started in 1972 when he assumed duties as the financial manager of the Swedish Ice Hockey Association. In 1976, he became the SIHA's General Secretary. He was recruited by the IIHF in 1985 and started work a year later when the IIHF still had its offices in Vienna, Austria. Edvinsson oversaw the federation's move to Zurich in 1991 where the office expanded to such a degree that it was re-located twice, finally settling at the present location – an historic villa in the heart of the city – in 2002 and boasting one of the finest headquarters of all international team sports federations. Jan-Åke Edvinsson still resides in the Zurich area with his wife, Gittan, and still contributes to the IIHF as the federation's Technical Delegate for the Olympic Winter Games.
(for outstanding contributions to international hockey)
Gord Miller (CAN)Born: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, June 21, 1964Gord Miller's dedication to the annual U20 at a time when most people happily vacation in the sun has helped TSN make the "World Junior Championships" one of the most successful hockey broadcasts in North America. His support and his dedication to the tournament, which stretches to 18 years and counting, the respect he commands from the broadcast booth, and his knowledge of the event and its history are unparalleled.For millions of Canadians, for whom the IIHF World Juniors have become an essential Christmas and New Year's tradition, Miller's voice and characteristic play-by-play style have come to personify the event.He started working at TSN in 1990 as a reporter, and three years later he started a career in the broadcast booth at the IIHF World Championships. In short order he was doing the NHL, Memorial Cup, and Women's World Championship, and in 2001 he worked as the English play-by-play man for the Montreal Canadiens telecasts.In 2002, Miller became the top play-by-play man for TSN and drew work appropriate to his reputation, culminating with the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. But while he is well-known in North America for his NHL assignments, his true passion and greatest contributions have been with TSN's remarkable coverage of the IIHF U20 World Championship.Miller first hosted the U20 in 1993 from the TSN studios, and two years later he started an 18-year run of annual Christmastime trips to the event. He worked first as a colour man and in 2002 started doing play-by-play for which he is now famous.In 2008, Miller was nominated for a Gemini Award (Canadian TV) for Best Play-by-Play Announcer for his work at the 2008 World U20 gold-medal game between Canada and Sweden in the Czech Republic.
1954 Soviet Union World Championship teamModern international hockey began in 1954. This declaration can be supported by one score, a score that sent shockwaves through the hockey world. Playing in its first ever international tournament, the Soviet Union humbled long-time World Champions Canada by a 7-2 score on March 7, 1954, the final day of the World Championship in Stockholm, Sweden. For the first time, it was clear Canada had a rival and adversary that could beat it any time the two teams played. Canada won the next year, lost in 1956, and continued to have the upper hand until 1961, but thereafter it was the Soviets who dominated.Although the Soviets had played hockey for several years within their borders, the 1954 Worlds was the first international appearance by Soviet Union. No one knew the players before the opening game, an easy 7-1 win over Finland, but they became known quickly. Nikolai Puchkov was the world-class goalie and Vsevelod Bobrov was given the Directorate Award as the Best Forward in the tournament.The Soviets won their next two games with expected ease, defeating Norway, 7-0, and then West Germany, 6-2, but the tournament took on new excitement when CCCP defeated Czechoslovakia, 5-2. The Czechoslovaks were regarded as the only nation close to Canada, and this put the East York Lyndhursts, Canada's representatives that year, on notice.The Soviets then beat Switzerland, 4-2, and settled in for a game against the host Swedes on March 5. But for a bit of luck and chance, history might have been radically different. The two teams played scoreless hockey for 40 minutes, and it was Tre Kronor that struck first when Gosta Johansson scored two minutes into the final period. The Swedes held the fort for most of the period, but with less than five minutes to play Viktor Shuvalov tied the game, setting up a gold-medal showdown against unbeaten Canada.In truth, the game wasn't even close. The Soviets blitzed Canada with four unanswered goals in the opening period, and although Canada made it 4-1 early in the second, it was a 7-1 game after two periods. At the final horn, the Soviets celebrated a victory that not only earned them gold but transformed the landscape of international hockey forever.1954 Soviet Union World Championship team (Arkadi Chernyshev, coach) GK—Grigori Mkrtychan, Nikolai Puchkov—Yevgeni Babich, Vsevolod Bobrov, Mikhail Bychkov, Alexei Guryshev, Nikolai Khlystov, Alexander Komarov, Yuri Krylov, Alfred Kuchevski, Valentin Kuzin, Viktor Shuvalov, Genrikh Sidorenkov, Dmitri Ukolov, Alexander Uvarov, Alexander Vinogradov, Pavel Zhiburtovich


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Swizcorner: Anaheim 1
Not since the Mayans just over two weeks ago has a collective group of people been so wrong following the absolute stunner of an underdog win at Anaheim 1 of 2013.
First things first, I can't possibly overstate how much of a home-run FELD's new three hours of online pre-race coverage is for us. For a longtime now we have been inundated with what has become a baseless comparison to NASCAR as a sport and finally, with this three-hour block of essentially "live qualifying" coverage (albeit online), there is finally some substance to the comparison.
If you're a tech-savvy fan of the sport, you can go the extra mile and get this live coverage up on the big screen in your man-cave and be truly in moto-heaven. Honestly, I found myself thinking a few times, "man, aside from missing the comedy of Nick Wey, the shit-talk of JT and the moto-fact ping pong going on between Weege and Matthes, this beats any Press Box seat I've had. There is one big exception which makes actually being there ultra-valuable and that is obviously being able to focus on what you want and not merely where the camera is pointed. And that's a big one, as was the case in the 450 LCQ when Hanny apparently punted some guy long after he had crashed himself out of contention. "Being there" has it's drawbacks (not as comfortable as home, traffic, $$, social-anxiety…) but none of them could ever trump being in control of what you are ingesting with your eyeballs.


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Hello. I have to make a vending machine in.. Java of course. The problem is, when the user is supposed to get his money back. The product costs 25.
If you put in the exact amount, it works fine. If you put in too little, and then the exact amount it works fine. If you put in too little, and then too much, it gives you the change back perfectly.
But.. If you put in too much at first, then the program "thinks" the user have put in the perfect amount..
Could you look at my code? Shouldn't be a big deal, just some minor detail probably.
import java.util.*; public class Vendingmachine { public static int colaAvailable = 2; public static int mineralWaterAvailable = 1; public static int lemonadeAvailable = 3; public static int canPrice = 25; public static void main(String[] args) { // if there are any cans left in the vending machine, it will continue. If the method cansAvailable validates to true, the program will continue. while (cansAvailable()) choosedrink(); // else it calls the method outoforder and shuts down outoforder(); } public static void choosedrink() { //loading scanner to get the user input System.out.println("Welcome to the vending machine."); System.out.println("Select one of the following drinks;"); if(colaAvailable > 0) System.out.println("1 - Cola"); if(mineralWaterAvailable > 0) System.out.println("2 - Mineral water"); if(lemonadeAvailable > 0) System.out.println("3 - Lemonade"); Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in); int selection = console.nextInt(); System.out.println("Now insert 25 Rupiah"); int coininput, totalAmount = canPrice; coininput = console.nextInt(); totalAmount = totalAmount-coininput; while ( totalAmount > 0) { // continues payment, until exact amount or too much is payed, in which case the machine returns the change if (totalAmount > 0) { // not enough money input, put more in System.out.println("Please insert " + totalAmount + " Rupiah"); coininput = console.nextInt(); totalAmount = totalAmount-coininput; } if (totalAmount < 0) { // too much money put in, change back System.out.println("Thank you. Here is your change; " + -totalAmount+ " Rupiah"); totalAmount = totalAmount-coininput; } } //launches the subsraction method, so the machine "knows" that there are on less can in the machine cansubstraction(selection); //when totalAmount is not less or larger than 0, it must be = 0, and then this print comes System.out.println("Thank you, here is your can."); // perfect amount of money input, merchandise is given System.out.println(); } public static boolean cansAvailable () { // this metod checks if there is any cans left. if just one of these 3 variables validates to true (over 0 left) //then it returns the true statement and the program will run if(colaAvailable > 0 || mineralWaterAvailable > 0 || lemonadeAvailable > 0) return true; // if it's not true, of course then it returns false and the programs activates the method that forces the machine to stop return false; } public static void cansubstraction (int selection) { // if either, 1,2 or 3 was selected, this method substracts one from that selection. if(selection == 1) colaAvailable--; else if(selection == 2) mineralWaterAvailable--; else if(selection == 3) lemonadeAvailable--; } // gives the following message, if there are no cans left in the machine public static void outoforder() { System.out.println("The machine is temporarily out of order"); } }


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Last week, the small village of Bil'in hosted the 8th annual Bil'in International Conference on the Palestinian popular struggle. The three-day conference, which coincided with International Peace Day, was held from Wednesday October 2 – 4, 2013.
According to the Palestinian Popular Struggle Committee, the main goal of the conference was "to strengthen and improve the coordination tools between the different implicated actors in the protection of Human Rights Defenders in Palestine just as general media, policy makers, and the Palestinian, Israeli and International civil society" within the strategy of non violent resistance.
With this aim, Palestinians, international activists, politicians and members of the Palestinian Government gathered under the slogan, "Towards a popular mobilization to adopt a common strategy for popular struggle in Palestine." The conference aimed at developing grassroots-oriented strategies of community-level non-violent resistance, coordinated by local popular committees.
In their words, they present "a unique form of community based organizing and resistance in the tradition of the first Palestinian Intifada," when the Palestinian society implemented similar tactics, such as demonstrations, strikes, political and economic disobedience (such as Beit Sahour's tax resistance) among others to combat Israel's occupation This period "was a reflection of the real implementation of popular resistance," Mustafa Barghouti, the leader of the Palestinian National Initiative (Al-Mubadara), put forward during the event.
Throughout the years, this form of resistance has consolidated itself not just as "a tool, [or] a reaction" to the occupation and its consequences (the Wall, interrupted life, the stealing of the land, resources and water, etc.), but "as a way to create another culture, totally opposed to the culture of the occupation," Luisa Morgantini, an activist and member of the European Parliament explained to Palestine Monitor.
"Also they discovered, little by little, how courageous [it] is to use non-violence: they use the gun and either Palestinians or internationals face the soldiers, and you need a lot of courage for that," Morgantini stated.
The head of Popular Struggle Coordination Committee, Abdallah Abu Rahma of Bil'in, opened the first round of the conference, pointing out the idea that gave rise to the meeting: "We (Palestinians) insist to continue existing (...) and the reaction to the occupation legitimates the resistance," Rahma explained in front of the public.
One of the key elements highlighted during the conference was the need for the implementation of a structured, planned and constant strategy amongst all actors involved in the popular struggle, regardless of political affiliations and unified by a common interest: ending the occupation. According to the participants, this goal could be easier to achieve through coordination with the international community, either with solidarity movements or international institutions and organizations, whose participation in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement could help place greater pressure on Israel to make it more accountable.
"Negotiations are not enough, we need an alternative strategy," Barghouti declared to the Palestine Monitor. "We do realize that the impatience with the Israeli policies is growing and that is why we appreciate so much the most recent statement of the European Union because it was the first official serious act of punishment against settlements by separating settlements and Jerusalem from any agreement in the future with Israel."
In his opinion, "a combination of non-violent popular resistance on the ground and a strong international solidarity boycott and disinvestment will change the situation as it happened in South Africa. Israel's policy is getting more and more isolated."
Fighting the occupation by creating facts on the ground
The second-day's session moved outside the village of Bil'in in an effort "to bring the facts to the ground," a tactic upon which the attendees had agreed the day before.
Participants were launched from different parts of West Bank to take part in "special events," kept secret up until moments before taking place.
In a cleanly executed action, which lasted all of about 15 minutes, a permanent gate that barred access to the home of Omar Shananir in Al-Walaja (Bethlehem) was removed. The action was symbolic though. Despite the removal of the barrier, Omar's house will soon be placed on the other (Israeli) side of the Wall, separated from the rest of the village. Soon, the only way through which he will be able to communicate and see the rest of his village, and the West Bank for that matter, will be through a tunnel already built under the Wall's route.
This gate was one of the more than 500 obstacles preventing Palestinian freedom movement every day throughout West Bank. "We are against this Apartheid gate that Israel is building and we want to tell them that we refuse this Apartheid system by separating and isolating this house where around ten people are living and that by this gate will be completely isolated," explained one of the Popular Struggle Committee leaders.
"We want to evidence that Israel is a fake state. We just need to take the initiative and get rid of the occupation. Israel built this stereotype of a powerful state but if you come closer you realise that is not like this."
After the movement, the retinue set off to one of the checkpoints located on the road between Ramallah and Bethlehem. On the way to the action in al-Walaja, three of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee's main leaders—Abdullah Abu Rahma, Mohamad Khatib and Naji Tamimi—were detained for no stated reason. They were kept for hours in what is informally know as "The Container," a trailer type box that sits on the side of the road for just such detentions. Such treatment is just "another example of the new wave of repression against the non violent Popular Struggle," argued one of the popular committee members.
Due to the intervention of activists and politicians, as well as the presence of several media outlets, the detainees were eventually released.
Around the same time, popular struggle activists drilled three separate holes in the in Separation Wall near Abu Dis, in an action designed to affirm the right of all Palestinians to enter all of East Jerusalem. Abu Dis, a village on the eastern side of the Jerusalem municipality, was de-facto placed within the West Bank after the construction of the Wall. The attempt to enter through the Wall was put to a halt as Israeli armed forces arrived, using stun grenades to disperse the crowd.
The third and last day of the international conference was celebrated close to Israel's Wall, which runs through the village of Bil'in. The Wall's route was modified in 2011 after a two-years-struggle by the community against its presence. Not only has the Wall been declared illegal by the International Court of Justice (2004), the Israeli High Court of Justice ordered the section in Bil'in to be re-routed in 2007 after a successful legal petition on behalf of the village. Despite its completed relocation, the Wall still bars access to about 25% of the village's land.
Like every Friday, dozens of Palestinians, Israelis and international peace activists marched through the village towards the Wall, waving flags and singing chants calling for the end of the occupation and the release of Palestinian prisoners.
Israeli soldiers crossed through the Wall in military jeeps and chased protesters meanwhile firing tear gas canisters, rubber covered bullets and sound bombs in order to break up the demonstration, where two injures were reported.
Although the village of Bil'in achieved the milestone of rerouting The Apartheid Wall in 2007, the community has never halted its weekly struggle on Fridays against the Israeli occupation as well as several villages in all West Bank, moved by the idea of facing the occupation respecting the guidelines of the non violence. "Despite the suffering generated by our resistance, the Popular Committees will continue our struggle," the organisers stated, cause "it is our right to resist the occupation."
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Do You Have a Hard Time Eating Animal-Shaped Foods?
There are vegans and vegetarians, and then there's a subgroup (likely very small) of people who aren't necessarily either, but get freaked out by eating foods shaped like animals. This topic came up after yesterday's poll, where we asked you to name what part of the chocolate Easter bunny you usually bite into first. But for some people, the shapes bring back too many memories of stuffed animals or pets. Eat something that resembles Fluffy?!
JoanieLSpeak admitted to feeling this way when seeing heads or faces on food reminiscent of living creatures. "I specifically remember watching an episode of Mr. Roger's where he talked about this. I think he may have used an animal shaped popsicle as an example. He talked about how it was ok to feel bad about eating animal shaped food."
As a longtime goldfish owner, I've never had qualms about eating the cheddary Pepperidge Farm snack by the handful. Same goes for Teddy Grahams and Gummi Worms (though I've never owned a pet bear or worm). Do you have a hard time eating animal-shaped foods?
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By Krupskaia Alis and Rafael Romo, CNN
Joanna moves her hands nervously as she speaks. Her oversized, golden earrings rattle as she shakes her head to make a point. Joanna is not her real name. She's speaking on the condition that CNN will protect her privacy and not disclose her real name. She's only 16 years old, but has already experienced a lifetime of horror, abuse and torture. She's a former sex slave.
It all started when she met a charming man. "I was in a normal relationship with him for three months," she says. At the time she was only 14 years old. She was treated like royalty and fell in love. A few months later he asked her to elope and she agreed.
"He promised that we would get a house and that we would raise children. I was naïve and believed everything he said. We started living together in July and by September he was already forcing me to work as a prostitute," Joanna said.
By then it had become painfully clear that Joanna's boyfriend was in reality her captor, a pimp who preyed on young, vulnerable teenagers whom he recruited in central Mexico with the purpose of forcing them into prostitution.
Joanna says she was forced to have sex with dozens of men for as many as 18 hours a day. There were days, she says, she would only sleep a couple of hours before starting another long and painful shift, sleeping with strangers who paid only a few dollars to be with her 15 minutes. The worst part was that if she failed to make at least $600 a day, she faced severe punishment.
"He hit me many times with a phone cable. He would hit me in the legs and hands. One time he started beating me with a broomstick. He beat me so hard that I couldn't even get up afterwards," Joanna said.
According to the Mexico City Human Rights Commission, as many as 70,000 minors in Mexico are victims of human trafficking. Most of them are subjected to forced labor, but a significant number are forced into prostitution, as in the case of Joanna.
Over the last decade, the problem has crossed the U.S. border. The arrests of 13 people in New York state in late April suggests pimps are also fond of getting cash, not only in Mexican pesos, but also in U.S. dollars.
According to authorities, the suspects worked a "sex trafficking corridor," transporting women from the small town of Tenancingo, in the central Mexican state of Tlaxcala, to the New York area.
Over a period of seven years, federal officials say, dozens of women were exploited; some of them were illegally transported from Mexico. Once in the United States, they were forced to have sex with as many as 30 customers per day, according to the federal complaint charging all 13 suspects. Victims were paid $30 to $35, the complaint says. Their driver would keep half. The other half went to the pimp, and the victims were left with nothing.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said the defendants blatantly lied to their victims in order to recruit them.
"With promises of a better life, the members of this alleged sex trafficking and prostitution ring lured their unsuspecting victims to the United States and then consigned them to a living hell - forcing them to become sex slaves living in abhorrent conditions, and using threats, verbal abuse, and violence – sexual and otherwise – when they resisted and even sometimes when they didn't," Bharara said.
The complaint describes how one victim was smuggled into the United States with her young child. Once in New York, she was made to sleep on the floor with the child. But that was just the beginning of her ordeal. On one occasion, when the woman refused to work as a prostitute, she and her child were forced to stay outside on a cold winter night.
Federal agents conducted raids at six locations, including four brothels in Yonkers, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, and Queens. If convicted, the suspects face anywhere from two years in prison to life.
Humberto Padgett is a Mexican journalist who wrote a book titled "Intimate Portrait of a Pimp." Based on years of research and interviews with victims and pimps, the book describes how Mexican pimps operate and how they exploit their victims.
Padgett says trafficking young women in Mexico has increased faster than drug trafficking in recent years.
"You can only sell a kilo of marijuana once. But you can sell a woman multiple times, even as many as 60 times per day. In five years, a woman can make as much as a million dollars for her pimp," Padgett says.
Last year, Mexico approved a law that makes human trafficking a federal crime punishable by up to 40 years in prison. The law targets not only those involved in sex trafficking, but also other forms of modern slavery, including forced labor and child pornography.
Padgett says pimps force women to stay with them by threatening to kill family members if they escape.
Maria, another former sex slave who asked that her real name not be used, lost her father six months after escaping her pimp. The now-17-year-old believes the prostitution ring that held her is responsible for his murder.
"More than anything, I feel guilty about my father's death. Sometimes I think that I should've stayed with the pimp so that he would kill me and not my father," Maria says.
She's back with her family, but still suffers from depression and nightmares associated with the verbal and physical abuse to which she was subjected.
"There's no way I'm ever going to feel better," she says. "They destroyed my life."
We need conservatives to close the borders so, like the good Christian nation they represent, the rest of the world can rot. All that matters is our wealthy and stratified Camelot.
IF they rot it is their own doing not Americas. If America is a civilized country that has nothing to do with the uncivilized. Instead you rather have the whole world rot come to America and make it rotten.?
Well done, conservatives, keep being Johns.
So says the pimp.
You can blame the elite and very rich along with the politicians.
who's your daddy now? Between Montana & Washington, now, You-da-ho.
CNN, please close caption these videos. I'm deaf.
And that way I can watch them without sound... have to do same with commercials
Mexico is getting so bad and worse ,so why don't we make Mexico apart of the US. ! Our Laws are more Human and more enforce than they are in Mexico !! It's not safe and a lot of health Issues there and there are no reason i will be going there for any vacation as a American ! Canada.. yes !!
English isn't your primary language. It couldn't be. Please study it more. I can't even decipher where you're going on vacation - or why.
He is clearly saying that he will not be vacationing in Mexico as an American, Canada would be preferred. Don't take typing errors too seriously, it happens especially in passionate, fast paced public commentary on a public news item.
And I love how any negative news reports just turns into people trying to validate their political position, racism, or religious stance by attacking others even when its irrelevant to the issue. And people seem to never know the correct facts about their side's role in the big pictures. Comments on news reports are like a war by proxy, let's use a separate issue to further my own viewpoints and agenda lol stupid
Uh, why would CNN leave out the part where it is the fault of middle aged white males? Weird.
Until Mexicans clean up their own lot, send them ALL back. No Mexican should be allowed any leniency until they clean up and dispose of their criminals.
Human Trafficking is evil! Be in it to end it! http://www.enditmovement.com
I'm not a US citizen but i can say that i believe that this has little to do with your government or mexicans. This is about abuse of women and modern day slavery. There are thousands of american women being held in slavery by american men. It's time for society to stop tolerating this.
There are lots of easy pickings white females to enslave for this. They are a dime a dozen and easy to force into submission.
Arrest the customers also. The guys who buy the services are contributing to this evil greatly. Why is the law and reporters quite about them.
This is a tragic story. I wonder where were the parents in all of this? 'Joanna' says "I was in a normal relationship with him for three months,". No, a 14 year old girl moving in with what was probably a much older man is not a 'normal' relationship. That was where this sad incident should have stopped. It didn't an now society needs to pick up the pieces.
Closing borders, any border, is a solution? People are so dumb. The answer is, get rid of the need for money!
After five years in office, you can certainly (safely?) say it's all Obama's fault! In the last five years América has been going morally and otherwise down hill under Obama and His cadre of liars.
God Bless América!
And yet you hate the vast majority of Americans who voted for the current President
Human trafficking is a world wide problem...You begin by making the people responsible for trafficking pay with the death penalty and then eliminate the customer pool also.
It is time the government had a data base for illegals so they can find kidnappers. US needs protection and ignoring the problem is not the answer. I am sure Mexico can share their criminal data base unless Mexican Mafia has access but that can be monitored
Gee. I love all the compassion shown here by you folks. Instead of offering insight into fighting trafficking on both sides of the border you want to fight about a secure border. There are awful people on both sides of the border who exploit children. Let's at least do our part on our side. We can also do our part on the Mexican side by writing embassies. I wonder if we really care about the children or just espousing our political left and right views?
It says in the article Mexico approved a law making trafficking a federal crime punishable by up to 40 years, they secure their border, they can ask questions to find out what's going on. In the US if authorities asks for the status or identification of an illegal they are called "racists"and aren't allowed to do it. So the conditions for slavery are perfect in the US. No amount of writing embassies will help. People can walk around doing whatever they want to others people because no one can investigate or ask questions because it might hurt someone's feelings. Domestic servants and workers are also part of this nightmare and they have to work off being brought here. This is the new America we live in.
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Deport all Illegal Aliens and seal the Mexican border NOW!
come to america get free medical food stamps free housing heck and a car. go to another country and get hard time in their jail and starved to death.so the ones working here in america get higher taxed and do with out from the labor of their own hands.wow!!! why shouldn't we be happy to have nothing from our earnings to just hand it over in taxes... isn't that right?
this is not about illegal immigration, and its not just a USA- Mexico problem. human trafficking and exploitation, is a global problem, and USA has its own, American on American trafficking and exploitation problem. these people are refugees from horrible human rights violations, and we, as pat of the intentional community need to do our part to put an end to this global atrocity. take your immigration issues off the trail of tears these victims walk. nobody gives it any credibility in this perspective.
People who do this should be prosecuted harshly without remorse. To do these acts to a living being is disgusting, inhumane, and goes against the principles of America.
No se puede escapar de la mano de Dios, tarde o temprano esos montruos van a pagar por
destruirles la vida a tantas niñas y mujeres inocentes, si no se arrepienten van a ir derechito
al infierno de fuego donde pagarán su condena eternamente.
Amigo, un una sociedad tienen un tiempo difícil convencer estos depravados personas consecuencia de la tierra, no creo que se preocupan de la vida de ultratumba, pero estoy de acuerdo con usted
Moving to the US, huh? So, are the girls still for sale? Do they deliver?
No one has mentioned the johns. If a young woman is having relations 30 times a day it's going to be obvious to anyone with a brain. She's hurting. She's looking scared and tired and needs help. The men who use and I mean use these women are every bit as guilty as the pimps. In fact every one of them needs to be locked up as a conspirator. This wouldn't be a problem if these men had an ounce of self control or compassion....
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They heard about the amnesty program Barry is running and they want in. It's as simple as that!!!
They heard about the amnesty program Barry is running and they want in. It's as simple as that!!!
I blame our first president, George Washington, because he was a president.
And we want to give them amnesty.
hack the heads off it will stop it by 85%
It would be only fair and just if one of Chuck Schumer's grand-daughters drew a high price. (She's an American!)
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They destroyed my life ^^
we want to give them
Hey Everyone. Blame isn't going to solve this. Trafficking isn't only across the Mexico-US border – it's global and no one person, country or organisation is going to stamp it out. This relies on everyone doing a little something. I guess I am sitting thinking about what we can do instead of pointing a finger at no-one in the hopes it will stop. And of course it's easier to think that someone else ought to sort things out. Imagine if this was your sister/mother/daughter/girlfriend! Ideas on how we (real people in the real world) can do something? We are billions, think of the power!
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Carrie Vaughn's new novel, After the Golden Age, is a surprisingly moving story about the impossibility of living up to your parents' expectations, and how tough it can be to love them — even if they are superheroes.
Celia West seems normal enough. She's a forensic accountant. She takes the bus. And she has a somewhat rocky relationship with her parents, who are obscenely wealthy superheroes. Celia's worked hard to carve out a life of her own but finds herself dragged right back into their world when their arch-nemesis is brought to trial.
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Vaughn's superheroes are unabashed and not especially conflicted about their powers, or their duty to help society. They're a bunch of individuals using their unique talents in the service of Commerce City, like a bright student pursuing teaching or a brave athlete signing on for the Fire Department. They're not ironic or wracked with guilt. Take Captain Olympus and Spark, two of the city's beloved, self-appointed protectors. As Warren and Suzanne West, they're also the city's scandalously wealthy social creme de la creme.
Great life, right? Well, it stinks for their only daughter, Celia, whose most impressive childhood achievement is a silver medal at a swim meet. Her home life is less than ideal, with her parents dashing off at all hours to save the city. So the kid feels like an afterthought, and as she grows up, her desire for her parents' attention morphs into anger and resentment. Her teenage rebellion is therefore not limited to an ill-advised tattoo or a stint with a punk rock band. As we discover shortly into the novel, she actually sought out and joined forces with Destructor, her parents' villainous arch-nemesis. It's just a temporary blip, a moment of adolescent insanity — but eight years later, she's still dealing with the consequences. And when the Destructor goes to trial, the whole thing blows wide open and makes a total hash of Celia's life.
On paper, Celia might sound like a bit of an over-privileged brat. But as written, she's tough and, most importantly, very likable. Vaughn has crafted a vivid, deeply conflicted but utterly sympathetic individual. She's also a complete smart-ass, which is particularly fun. For example, the first time we see her kidnapped, she makes the following assessment of her captors: "He really was stupid enough to tell her his plan. Amateurs." Everything is filtered through her perspective, to the point the novel reads like a first-person narrative. Consequently, every other character is a bit less sharply drawn, but not to the point of seeming two-dimensional.
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But at its heart, After the Golden Age is a somewhat angsty family drama, and that's where it's most affecting. Captain Olympus, when he loses his temper, punches through walls, tables, anything else that's convenient to destroy. That's very impressive when trying to intimidate bad guys, but it's less great as a parenting strategy. Vaughn doesn't soft-pedal Warren West's failings as a parent: He's fundamentally a decent man, but he wanted a mutant child able to carry on his super-powered legacy, and Celia can't live up to those expectations. To make matters worse, she inherited his mule-stubborn personality and isn't any more capable of building emotional bridges. It's excruciating to watch and very, very true. If that's not your cup of tea, you should pass on this one. But if you're moved by the idea of Celia's rocky relationship with her dad, After the Golden Age should be right up your alley.


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There are already articles on CPF about different light measurement designs, but none that I found on Integrating Sphere construction. For me, finding a hollow, white sphere was the first challenge. After quite a few searches, a 12" hollow styrene sphere was found at Barnard (phone 888-584-3637). Price with shipping was about $38 - the shipping seemed high until the sphere arrived in a carton almost twice as big as the item.
A top and bottom plate were cut from 1/2" plywood. The sphere measured exactly 12" diameter, and the plywood was cut to 11 7/8" (square) to give the sphere a small amount of compression when assembled.
Four posts (also 11 7/8") were cut to connect the upper & lower plates, and the posts and plates were assembled with yellow glue & brad nails.
The sphere was placed inside the assembly, and four side panels were cut from 1/8" plywood. These are attached with yellow glue & brad nails.
The upper hole is cut with a holesaw to match the diameter of the light meter sensor. The light port is also cut with a holesaw to fit the light tube.
A piece of 2 3/4" stainless tube is used here, but PVC pipe would work just as well. The light tube was coated with Satellite City Special T Super Glue, the inside of the hole was misted with accelerator, and the tube was inserted & twisted until the glue set (about 5 seconds)
Except for applying a finish to the wood, the IS is complete. The light meter is an Extech EA31 (range to 20,000 Lux). It was found on Amazon for under $100 & gives repeatable readings. Since the IS is a comparative device, my concern is that the readings are the same every time a light is retested.
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Samuel Day was the son of Mary "Polly" Matthews and her husband Thomas Day. They were married May 5, 1821, in Ohio and he died in a flood four months later in August. Samuel was born March 6, 1822. Mary's sister Margaret was married to Samuel Downing. They had six children before she died in 1836. Mary and Samuel wed 16 months later and had two children, William Nelson and John Clark. The whole group migrated to Logan County and settled along the south side of Salt Creek on the Chester/Mt. Pulaski Township border. Also in the group were various Matthews, sometimes spelled Mathews. Mary died in 1847 and was buried in Downing Cemetery.
In 1850 Samuel is living four farms from Samuel, his uncle and stepfather, with his wife Sarah. In 1855 he is living next to Samuel. There are eight in his household. In 1860 there is a Samuel Day living in Lincoln. In the 1862 Military Census he is in Madison Precinct. In 1870 this Samuel Day is living in Aetna Township with wife Sarah, sons Thomas, 19, and John, 13, and daughters Lydia, 5, and Axey, 1/2 year. Neither he nor Sarah are in the 1880 census in Logan County or anywhere else that I could find.
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